Shilpa Shinde was on Sunday night crowned the winner of reality TV series "Bigg Boss 11", beating Hina Khan through live voting.

Polls conducted by quite a few media houses and social media had predicted Shinde would go on to win the show.

The show that premiered on October 1 last year, had its finale today here, with Shilpa and Hina competing for the winner's title. Inmates Vikas Gupta and Puneesh Sharma was evicted due to less number of votes polled for them.

The finale had Bollywood star Akshay Kumar as the special guest alongside host Salman Khan.

The controversial reality show had quite a few performances by contestants between Vikas Gupta and Shilpa Shinde, Puneesh Sharma and Bandgi Kalra, Hina Khan, Priyank Sharma and Luv Sinha, among others.

The show, hosted by Salman Khan, had the contestants divided into two groups - Gharvale and Padosi.

The sprawling "Bigg Boss" house spread across 19,400 square feet had 90 cameras installed in it. The house in the picturesque Lonavala, near Mumbai, was designed by director Omung Kumar and his wife Vanita.